Annika Koops

Artist (b.1983)

Annika Koops is a Naarm (Melbourne) based artist working primarily between painting and digital media. Recent work charts the porosity of boundaries between physical and virtual spaces, objects, and persona. Her works consider how subjectivity may be distilled and reformatted in the digital realm. Current work contrasts imaging technologies associated with biometrics with painterly practice to creatively interpret how bodily traces operate in cultural and economic fields.

She has been the recipient of a number of significant grants and prizes including Australia Council Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups, Australia Council British School, Rome Residency, The Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship, and an Australian Postgraduate Award. She has been invited to participate in international exhibitions such as Roman Remains, Transition Gallery, London, and the inaugural Bristol Biennial as well as having exhibited at a range of public institutions, artist-run spaces and private galleries in Australia.

She has undertaken National and International residencies, most recently as a visiting fellow with UNSW Art and Design (2020). Her work is included in significant Australian public collections such as Art Bank, MONA Hobart and The University of Melbourne Collection. She is represented by Bett Gallery, Hobart.

Curriculum Vitae

Born 1983 / Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Represented Bett Gallery, Hobart.

EDUCATION

2021–
Current PhD Candidate Monash University
2012 
MFA Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2005 
Graduated First Class Honours Bachelor Fine Art Honours Victorian College of the Arts
2001–03
University of Tasmania, Bachelor of Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Bad Actors, Lon Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne
2022
Shadow Moves, Bett Gallery, Nipaluna/Hobart
2017 
Everyday Topologies, Bett Gallery Hobart
2015
Bump Function, Caves Gallery, Melbourne
2013
Scarecrows, Nellie Castan Gallery
Split Stream, Bett Gallery,Hobart
2012
MFA Graduate Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery,Melbourne
2011
Act Natural, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Laughing Out Loud on the Inside, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
2009
The Ruins, Depot Gallery, Sydney
Drop Shadow my Heart, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2007
I Didn’t Ask to be Born, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2005
All We Want To Do is Impress You, Seventh Gallery Melbourne,

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Emanations, Project 8 Gallery, (Forthcoming), Curated by Sean Lowry and Kim Donaldson
2021
Two People Never See the Same Rainbow, Lon Gallery, Melbourne, Curated by Adam Stone
Salt + Loving; Halophile Blindside Gallery (online), Curated by Josephine Mead
The Image Collective, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2019
Surface Creep, Annika Koops and Emile Zile, Bus Projects, Melbourne
Unspoken Rule Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
Snake Charmer, Lon Gallery, Melbourne
2018
Still Life Part 1. Irene Rose Gallery Melbourne
2017
Caves Offsite, The Substation Gallery, Melbourne
Spring 1883 Art Fair, Sydney with Fort Delta Gallery
2016
Drawing to an End, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
Double Agent, Long Division Gallery, Melbourne
The Waiting Room, Art Bank Gallery, Sydney
2015
Roman Remains, Transition Gallery, London
2014
Wormholes, Bett Gallery, Hobart
June Mostra, British School, Rome
2013
Four Ways , Alliance Française Gallery, Melbourne
Auckland Art Fair, Stand 22 Nellie Castan Gallery,Queens Wharf, NZ
2012
Cryptoverse, Bristol Biennial, Bristol UK
Taskmasters, C3 Contemporary Arts Space
2011
25 Year Anniversary Show, Bett Gallery Hobart
2010
Primed, Academy gallery, University of Tasmania
2009
Repeat Repeat, Platform Gallery Melbourne
2008
Team Australia, Carlton Hotel Gallery Melbourne
Without Money There is No Love, Guilford lane Gallery, Melbourne
Standard Room, Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam
Underdogs, Project(or) Art Fair, Rotterdam
Group show, Onno van Toor Gallery, Rotterdam

BIBLIOGRAPHY

AWARDS

2023
Footscray Art Prize (finalist)
2021
Monash MES Scholarship PhD
2020
City of Melbourne Project Grant (with Image Collective)
Creative Victoria Sustaining Creative Workers Grant.
Australia Council Arts Projects for Individuals
2017
Darebin Art Prize (Finalist)
2015
Australia Council Art Start Grant
2014 
British School Rome, Australia Council Residency
2013
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (Finalist)
Highly Commended, Churchie Emerging Art Prize
Highly Commended, Hobart Art Prize
2012 
CCRAF Research Grant, University of Melbourne
Alliance Française Award
Nellie Castan Graduate Award
2011 
Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Melbourne
New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2010 
Highly Commended, City of Albany Art Prize,
2009
Prometheus Visual Arts Award (Finalist)
2008
Short-listed Finalist SOYA visual arts award,
Artist in Residence, Strathmore Secondary College Australia
2007 
Awarded Artist in Residence Foundation B.A.D Rotterdam,
Awarded Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship,
Awarded Arts Tasmania Assistance to Individuals grant

COLLECTIONS